Energy-Based Safety

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Energy-Based Safety is an approach that reframes how organisations understand and manage high-risk work, by focusing on hazardous energy as the true source of serious harm, rather than just procedural gaps or non-compliance. Instead of relying solely on paperwork, rules, and risk matrices, EBS targets the identification, control, and verification of energy sources—such as gravity, electricity, pressure, motion, and heat, that can be released unexpectedly and cause fatal or life-altering injuries.

In the myosh platform, Energy-Based Safety principles can be embedded through modules like Critical Control Management, Permit to Work, Bowtie Analysis, and Task Risk Assessments. These tools help organisations:

• Map hazardous energy sources in routine and non-routine tasks.
• Define and verify the effectiveness of critical controls that prevent energy transfer to people.
• Shift from administrative safety to physical risk control, ensuring controls are in place, effective, and functioning at the point of risk.

By aligning safety systems with the actual mechanisms of harm, energy release and transfer, EBS enables businesses to better predict, prevent, and manage serious incidents.

When integrated with myosh, this approach supports a data-driven, systemised, and visual method of managing what really matters: controlling energy to protect lives.

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